Find Journal Metrics Scores for Nature, Science, Cell, PNAS, Nature Communications instantly
Choose a subject category from the journal database, then sort the field page by Journal Metrics Score or quartile.
Clinical medicine, public health, epidemiology, specialties, and translational medical research.
Cardiology, cardiovascular medicine, heart disease, vascular biology, and clinical cardiovascular research.
Surgical specialties, operative techniques, outcomes, perioperative care, and clinical surgery research.
Cancer research, oncology practice, tumor biology, therapeutics, screening, and clinical cancer studies.
Neuroscience, neurology, cognitive neuroscience, cellular neuroscience, and brain research journals.
Clinical, cognitive, social, developmental, applied, and experimental psychology journals.
Molecular biology, genetics, biochemistry, plant science, ecology, and broad life-science journals.
Electrical, mechanical, civil, aerospace, biomedical, manufacturing, and systems engineering journals.
Artificial intelligence, software, networks, information systems, theory, and computing journals.
Organic, inorganic, analytical, physical, materials, and chemical engineering journals.
Physics, astronomy, optics, condensed matter, high-energy physics, and applied physics journals.
Environmental science, ecology, climate, earth science, geoscience, and sustainability journals.
Sociology, political science, communication, education, anthropology, law, and social policy journals.
Helpful Starting Points
Start with a field list, a quartile view, a country page, or a short guide depending on what you need to verify.
Compare journals inside a subject area before opening individual records.
Use quartile pages to narrow a shortlist when ranking matters more than a single journal lookup.
Check regional journal lists and publisher-location context from the same database.
Understand the newest Journal Metrics Score, subfield quartiles, ISSNs, CAS block, and source links together.
Trust & Quality
Journal Metrics is built to help researchers verify journal metrics quickly and understand the publishing decisions around them. We document how data is maintained, how guides are reviewed, and how readers can request corrections.
See where journal records come from, how the Journal Metrics Score and CAS data are maintained, and what limitations users should keep in mind.
Review how guides are planned, checked, updated, and corrected before and after publication.
Learn how to confirm whether a journal is actually indexed in the major scholarly databases it claims.
Research Guides
These guides answer common journal selection, publishing, and metrics questions and create stronger internal paths for both users and crawlers.
How SJR weights citations by the prestige of the citing journal, how a plain four-year citation average differs, and which free metric to use.
Q1 is the top 25% of a subject category by citations and Q2 the next 25%. When the gap matters for your career, when it does not, and how to choose.
Search the ISSN in the database itself, check coverage years and discontinued status, confirm it on the official title list, and rule out a cloned website.
How to read a forest plot, interpret heterogeneity and prediction intervals, and report meta-analysis results so they satisfy reviewers and PRISMA 2020.
Search the journal by title or ISSN, open its record and read the quartile for each subject category. Three free ways to check, and why they differ.
Seven free journal metrics sites, including SCImago, Google Scholar Metrics, OpenAlex, DOAJ and SciRev, compared by data source, metric, login and best use.